Predict What Comes Later

Predict the 10th or 12th thing in a pattern.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 43

If a pattern keeps going, you can predict what comes later! Here, every odd spot is red, and every even spot is blue.
What will the 10th one be? Keep the pattern going and count: 7 red, 8 blue, 9 red, 10 blue. The 10th is blue!
With a pattern of three, it repeats every 3: star, moon, sun. Spots 3, 6, 9, and 12 are all suns!
Find the part that repeats, then keep it going in your head, counting as you go.

Georgia's K-12 Mathematics Standards:

1.PAR.3.1 — Investigate, create, and make predictions about repeating patterns with a core of up to 3 elements resulting from repeating an operation, as a series of shapes, or a number string.